Class Notes - Daily Log - FA09

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CLASS NOTES - DAILY LOG DIRECTIONS
  • Put today's date and information above the previous day's date.
  • List the topic of discussion for the day. Usually, that would be the main points found in the previous nights reading assignment.
  • In the notes/description/discussion section, list all student questions and answers to the topic. Be sure to include any extra questions or topics that emerge in the discussion. Answers generated from other students should also be included - not just those generated by the teacher. The information should be detailed enough to follow for a student who was absent.
  • If the date and information was already entered from a previous class, please continue to take notes under that date. Information discussed in one class may not be exactly the same information discussed in another.
  • Claswork grade: 10 points for thorough additions to the wiki, 7 points for a mediocre outline of information, 3.5 for weak outline of information, 0
  • points for not completing the transcription of discussion

JANUARY DAILY SCRIBE SCHEDULE
PERIOD 1 - RED
PERIOD 2 - YELLOW
PERIOD 3 - GREEN

Archived Week - January 20 - 22
Archived Week - January 25 - 29
Archived Week - February 1 - 5
Archived Week - February 8 - 19
Archived Week - February 22 - March 5


March 11

State of South
  • South economy ruined
  • people were still defiant against northern rules
  • without leadership initially
  • slave owners lost everything
  • South is bitter and war torn
  • upset because slaves were being emancipated

Johnson right for the job?
  • South didn't agree with him and neither did the North
  • country needed a really strong leader but he could not fill Lincoln's shoes
  • Johnson was put on ballot purely for political reasons

Reconstruction
  • some felt that the South had officially seceded but Lincolnites said that it was not legal/needed to bring states back in quickly

Black Codes
  • Freedmen were not permitted to move without permission
  • Freedmen were forced to work for whites
  • Freedmen were bound to former masters as apprentices
  • Freedmen were punished for vagrancy with forced labor contracts
  • Freedmen were prohibited from signing legal contracts and testifying in court
  • Freedmen couldn't own their own land in the South
  • Freedmen could enter no occupation other than farming without license
  • Freedmen could not travel freely
Sharecropping
  • master owns land
  • blacks farm the land
  • blacks get paid for the amount they harvest
  • master charges for food, shelter and tool use
  • masters could fool slaves because the slaves weren't well educated
  • slaves became in debt and could not leave until their debt was paid=slaves
How did the South gain congressional power?
  • slaves who were once counted as 3/5 now counted as one
  • picked up seats in the House of Representatives and electoral votes
  • former Confederate officers were put into Congress as representatives
  • North was afraid of power the South would gain and that slavery would become an institution again
Civil Rights Bill and the 14th Amendment
  • passed by more than 3/4 of Congress

March 11, PD3

Was Lincoln a Moderate or a radical?
    • He was a moderate because he only made the states have a 10% instead of 50% vote.
    • At the beginning, Lincoln wasn't really concerned with the abolition of Slavery, he was more concerned with the preservation of the Union.
What happened with Alaska?
  • The U.S. spent 7.2 million dollars on the purchase of Alaska from the Russions

Was the South's economy better before or after the war?
    • Economy was better after the war
    • increased power in congress
    • they were upset about the increased freedoms of blacks